CTO @ Digitonic · Laravel engineer · Technical leader
Engineering, taught & leadership, practised — from the west coast of Scotland.
I'm Steven — Chief Technology Officer at Digitonic, where I build and lead teams shipping production Laravel for investor relations and iGaming. I've been writing PHP since the 5.1 days and Laravel since its early releases.
I write long-form, code-first deep-dives on Laravel, architecture, DDD, and the craft of leading software teams over at richdynamix.com — and I'm usually chasing a better golf handicap when I'm away from the keyboard.
- Site & writing → richdynamix.com
- Latest articles → richdynamix.com/articles
- What I'm doing now → richdynamix.com/now
I maintain a handful of packages and developer tools — full list on Packagist and across my repositories.
- arc — Production-ready, Docker-based development environment for Laravel.
- laravel-firebase — A small Laravel wrapper for the Firebase PHP SDK.
- chatbase-api — Chatbase API client built for Laravel.
- magestead — The Vagrant solution for Magento developers.
The newest deep-dives from richdynamix.com/articles (updated automatically):
- [Fix Mobile Full-Height Layouts with Tailwind v4 Dynamic Viewport Units](https://richdynamix.com/articles/tailwind-v4-dynamic-viewport-height-mobile)- [Set Up a Fast Local Laravel Environment with Herd](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-herd-local-development-environment-setup)
- [Keep Laravel Queue Workers Alive with Supervisor in Production](https://richdynamix.com/articles/supervisor-laravel-queue-workers-production)
- [Style Parent Elements from Their Children with Tailwind v4's has-* Variant](https://richdynamix.com/articles/tailwind-v4-has-variant-parent-child-styling)
- [Build Multi-Agent Workflows with the Laravel AI SDK](https://richdynamix.com/articles/laravel-ai-sdk-multi-agent-workflows-handoff)
- [Test Livewire 4 Components with Pest](https://richdynamix.com/articles/livewire-4-testing-components-pest)
